The Center for the Study of Representation at the Institute of Governmental Studies is pleased to announce the Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research, made possible by a generous donation from Bill and Patrice Brandt. Patrice Bugelas-Brandt joined Senator Percy's Chicago Senate office in 1973 and served as his Illinois press secretary from 1974 to 1977. Bill Brandt is a member of the IGS National Advisory Board. They wish to honor Senator Percy's career achievements in business and politics with this grant.
The CSR/IGS will award up to six research grants of up to $750 each to U.C. Berkeley undergraduate students who are conducting research on an aspect of American politics, including public opinion, electoral behavior, civic participation, government institutions, social movements, and public policy. Students from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged to apply. The grant may be used to cover research expenses such as traveling to Washington, DC to interview lawmakers, buying a dataset, or covering photocopying costs at an archive.
The John Gardner Fellowship selects six Fellows during the spring semester from among the graduating classes at UC Berkeley and Stanford University and provides each a $27,500 stipend. During the summer months following selection, Fellows travel to a handful of self-selected organizations to identify the one that offers the closest fit with their public service interests and ambitions. Equally important in this process is the selection of a mentor, a senior figure from within the organization who agrees to nurture the Fellow's professional growth and development over the course of their ten-month Fellowship. A mentoring relationship generally means that a Fellow enters an organization at a relatively high level, enjoys access to senior-level meetings and conferences, and travels alongside their mentor when appropriate. Perhaps most importantly, mentoring provides the Fellow with a crash course in experiential learning.
Named in honor of the late John Jacobs, the late political editor and columnist of the McClatchy Newspapers, this fellowship is a joint program of the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism. It seeks to provide support for journalists who take time off to write a scholarly book about politics or public affairs. The fellowship provides a modest stipend, an office, telephone, fax, and copying privileges, as well as access to the University libraries and the research support of the talented IGS library staff. For more information contact: Ethan Rarick, erarick@berkeley.edu; (510) 642-5158.
The Center for the Study of Representation at the Institute of Governmental Studies is pleased to announce the Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship, made possible by a generous donation from Bill and Patrice Brandt. This fellowship honors Mike Synar, the former U.S. Congressman from the 2nd District of Oklahoma from 1979 to 1995. The Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship is awarded to distinguished UC Berkeley graduate students who are writing their dissertations on an aspect of American politics, including public opinion, electoral behavior, civic participation, government institutions, social movements, and public policy. Each year, the Center for the Study of Representation will award up to five Synar Graduate Research Fellowships of up to $3,000 each.
The Program for Overseas Americanists (POA) brings to UC Berkeley foreign scholars and practitioners with a common interest in advancing the study and understanding of American politics, government and public policy. Participants are granted Visiting Scholar status and return to their home countries with a better grasp of the ties that bind American democratic principles, institutions and values, and its free market economy. Visitors have included well-known scholars and youthful postdocs, journalists, government officials, and foreign service officers from Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, France, China, and Brazil.
As part of this initiative, the following foreign universities have developed informal exchange agreements with IGS:
Located in Tokyo, Keio University's Center for Civil Society with Comparative Perspective conducts research and maintains programs designed to study the underinvestigated area of the dynamics of civil society in a multicultural world. Some of the components of the Center's research include the comparative analysis of civil society, media content analysis, transnational political society, and civil society in Japan.